Fans of Apple's relatively inexpensive iPhone SE look set for a bad time over the next couple of years. While there have been conflicting reports about when the budget iPhone would get a refresh and what it would look like, the latest line suggests that there might not even be one at all.
We'd seen various leaks over the last few months with the iPhone SE at one point thought to have been cancelled. Then we were told to expect a refresh that would feature a design similar to that of the iPhone 14, complete with a 6.1-inch OLED display. Now, things are less clear with supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claiming that the phone everyone thought was an iPhone SE, isn't. And what's more, it isn't even an iPhone that will ever be sold.
iPhone SE confusion
The latest situation in what is quite the saga came after Kuo tweeted to say that the iPhone SE 4 that he believed to be in the works is actually a device that Apple built just to test its in-house 5G modem. That device is essentially an iPhone 14 but with Qualcomm's modem stripped out and Apple's plugged in. It isn't an iPhone SE at all and it's never going to go on sale.
